My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.
("Franny and Zooey")
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.J.D. Salinger
If you're going to go to war against thr System, just do your shooting like a nice, intelligent girl ? because the enemy's there, and not because you don't like his hairdo or his goddamn necktie.
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It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
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Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.
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Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard- very mean, or very conceited and all- and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion.
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But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.
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